Museum on pause

The Pollock-Krasner House will open for public tours when the region is authorized under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s phased plan. Admission will be by advance reservation, with numbers strictly limited. Social distancing and face coverings will be required.

In the meantime, please take the audio tour, available in five languages, or join one of our free video-chat tours. See below for instructions.

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Athos Zacharias: The Late Work

The current exhibition of paintings by Athos Zacharias (1927-2019) features examples from the last two years of the artist’s life, during which he created a series of gestural abstractions that blend his devotion to action painting with his love of pop-culture imagery. “References to reality appear,” he once noted, “but the subject of the painting is always my own imagination.” See the exhibition here.

Zacharias in his Springs studio. Photograph by Adam Weiss for LI Pulse.

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The exhibition will remain on view throughout the season. The May 24 gallery talk has been rescheduled as a closing reception on October 31.

EXPRESS YOURSELF!

Live ZOOM video-chat tours

with Education Coordinator

Joyce Raimondo

Tuesdays and Thursdays in May

*Please see the schedule below*

During the emergency cancellation of our popular outreach programs for school and community groups, our Education Coordinator, Joyce Raimondo, is offering a series of video-chat tours for adults, teens and youngsters.

MoMA features Brian Craig’s

take on Stenographic Figure

In addition to his service as a Pollock-Krasner House docent and member of our advisory committee, Brian Craig volunteers at the Museum of Modern Art. When the museum sent out a request for all staff to submit a work in the collection that inspires them, Brian chose Stenographic Figure, the painting that launched Pollock’s career.

This is the canvas Piet Mondrian praised when it was submitted to Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 “Spring Salon for Young Artists,” which led to her patronage of Pollock. As Jackson later wrote to his brother Charles, “Things really broke with the showing of that painting.”

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Brian’s post describes Stenographic Figure as a presage of Pollock’s signature style, and a source of strength in this challenging time, as we look toward better days to come. It certainly signaled a bright future for Pollock!